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Poetry London
''Poetry London'' is a literary periodical based in London. Published three times a year, it features poems, reviews, and other articles. Profile Adopting the title of an earlier bimonthly publication which ran from 1939 to 1951, ''Poetry London'' was founded in 1988 as a listings magazine. It now publishes poems from Britain and around the world, some originally written in English and some in English translation. The current head of the editorial team is André Naffis-Sahely. Previous poetry editors have included Colette Bryce, Pascale Petit, Maurice Riordan, Ahren Warner and Martha Sprackland. The Poetry London Prize The magazine runs a major international poetry competition each year, in which the winner receives the Poetry London Prize for a single outstanding poem. There are also second and third prizes. All entries are single poems written in English that have not have yet been published. The first prize is currently £5000. Winners have included Liz Berry, Richard Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry London (1939–1951)
''Poetry London: A Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism'' was a leading London-based literary periodical published intermittently between 1939 and 1951. It was edited by Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu. Contributors included Dylan Thomas, Herbert Read, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Lawrence Durrell. References Further reading * * *Dickins, Anthony. "Tambimuttu and Poetry London". ''London Magazine'' 5.8 (1965). * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Poetry London 1939-1951 Defunct literary magazines published in the United Kingdom Magazines established in 1939 Magazines disestablished in 1951 Magazines published in London Poetry magazines published in the United Kingdom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Bryce
Colette Bryce is a poet, freelance writer, and editor. She was a Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee from 2003 to 2005, and a North East Literary Fellow at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 2005 to 2007. She was the Poetry Editor of Poetry London from 2009 to 2013. In 2019 Bryce succeeded Eavan Boland as editor of ''Poetry Ireland Review''. Early life Bryce was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, where she was educated at Thornhill College. Bryce lived in London until 2002 when she moved to Scotland. She moved to the North East of England in 2005. Works Bryce's first published work was included in the 1995 volume ''Anvil New Poets'', ed. Carol Ann Duffy, which also introduced the work of poets Kate Clanchy and Alice Oswald, among others. That year she won an Eric Gregory Award. Her poetry appears in the recent anthologies ''Modern Women Poets'' (Bloodaxe), and ''The New Irish Poets'' (Bloodaxe), ''Forward Book of Poetry 2009'' (Forward), ''Hand in Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascale Petit (poet)
Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953), is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India. Petit has published eight poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her seventh collection ''Mama Amazonica'' won the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2018 and the inaugural Laurel Prize for Poetry in 2020. In 2018, Petit was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Biography Petit has published eight poetry collections: ''Heart of a Deer'' (1998), ''The Zoo Father'' (2001), ''The Huntress'' (2005), ''The Treekeeper's Tale'' (2008), ''What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo'' (2010), ''Fauverie'' (2014), ''Mama Amazonica'' (2017) and ''Tiger Girl'' (2020). She also publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Riordan
Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, his poetry collections include: ''A Word from the Loki'' (1995), a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; ''Floods'' (2000) which took a more millennial tone, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; ''The Holy Land'' (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems and returns to Riordan's Irish roots more directly than his earlier work. It received the Michael Hartnett Award. His anthologies include ''A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science'' (2000), a collaboration with Jon Turney, an anthology of ecological poems ''Wild Reckoning'' (2004) edited with John Burnside, and ''Dark Matter'' (2008) edited with astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell. He has also edited a selection of poems by Hart Crane (2008) in Faber's 'Poet to Poet' series. He has translated the work of Malte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahren Warner
Ahren Warner (born 1986) is a British poet. Background Ahren Warner is a poet and artist. He has published four books of poetry, most recently ''Hello. Your promise has been extracted'' (Bloodaxe, 2017), a collection of poems and photographs, and ''The sea is spread and cleaved and furled'' (Prototype, 2020), a book-length sequence of poems and moving-image work. His work has received numerous awards, including three Poetry Book Society Recommendations and an Arts Foundation Fellowship. He was also selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020. Warner's poems appear in several major anthologies, including ''London: A History in Verse'' (Harvard University Press, 2012) and ''Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets'' (Bloodaxe, 2010). From 2013 to 2019, he was the Poetry Editor of ''Poetry London ''Poetry London'' is a literary periodical based in London. Published three times a year, it features poems, reviews, and other articles. Profile Adopting the title of an ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Sprackland
Martha Sprackland (born 1988) is a British writer. Background Martha Sprackland is a writer, editor and translator from Spanish, born in Barnstaple in 1988, who grew up in Ainsdale, Merseyside. Her mother is the British poet Jean Sprackland. Her debut collection of poems, ''Citadel'', was published in 2020 by Liverpool University Press, and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Costa Poetry Prize, and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. She has also published two pamphlets: ''Glass As Broken Glass'' (2017, Rack Press) and ''Milk Tooth'' (2018, Rough Trade Books). Previously assistant poetry editor at Faber & Faber, Sprackland is the co-founder and editor of Offord Road Books, and was previously a co-founding editor of ''La Errante'' magazine and ''Cake'' magazine. From 2017 to 2021 she was an editor for ''Poetry London'', of which she was acting poetry editor for five issues. Bibliography ''Glass As Broken Glass'' (Rack Press ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liz Berry
Liz Berry (born 1980) is a British poet. She has published two pamphlets and one full-length poetry collection. Her poetry collection, ''Black Country'', was named poetry book of the year by several publications, including ''The Guardian''. Early life and education Born in 1980, Berry was raised in the Black Country of England. She trained as a school teacher and initially taught in a primary school. She became interested in poetry after taking a beginners' poetry class at a local college. She later attended the Royal Holloway, University of London, where she earned an MA in Creative Writing. Poetry career Berry was a recipient of the Eric Gregory Award in 2009. The award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under the age of 30.. Berry's first pamphlet, ''The Patron Saint of School Girls'', was published by tall-lighthouse in 2010. She won the ''Poetry London'' competition in 2012 for the poem ''Bird''. In 2014, Chatto and Windus published ''Black Country'', B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred D'Aguiar
Fred D'Aguiar (born 2 February 1960) is a British-Guyanese poet, novelist, and playwright. He is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Life Fred D'Aguiar was born in London, England, in 1960 to Guyanese parents, Malcolm Frederick D'Aguiar and Kathleen Agatha Messiah. In 1962 he was taken to Guyana, living there with his grandmother until 1972, when he returned to England at the age of 12. D'Aguiar trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury, graduating in 1985. On graduating he applied for a PhD on the Guyanese author Wilson Harris at the University of Warwick, but – after winning two writers-in-residency positions, at Birmingham University and the University of Cambridge (where he was the Judith E. Wilson Fellow from 1989 to 1990) – his PhD studies "receded from ismind" and he began to focus all of his energies on creative writing. In 1994, D'Aguiar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, resigning in 2019. She was the first female poet, the first Scottish-born poet and the first openly gay poet to hold the Poet Laureate position. Her collections include ''Standing Female Nude'' (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; ''Selling Manhattan'' (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; ''Mean Time'' (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award; and '' Rapture'' (2005), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her poems address issues such as oppression, gender, and violence in accessible language. Early life Carol Ann Duffy was born to a Roman Catholic family in the Gorbals, considered a poor part of Glasgow. She was the daughter of Mary (née Black) and Frank Duffy, an electrical fitter. Her mother's parents were Irish, and her father had Irish grandpare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Gross
Philip Gross (born 1952) is a poet, novelist, playwright, children's writer and academic based in England and Wales. He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the University of South Wales. Biography Philip Gross was born in 1952 at Delabole in north Cornwall, near the sea, as the only child of Juhan Karl Gross, an Estonian wartime refugee, and Jessie, daughter of the local village schoolmaster. He grew up and was educated in Plymouth. In junior school he began writing stories and in his teens he took to poetry as well. He is a Quaker. He went on to the University of Sussex, where he gained his BA in English. He worked for a correspondence college and in several libraries, as he has a diploma in librarianship. Since the early 1980s he has been a freelance writer and writing educator and more recently held posts in several universities. In the 1980s, Gross and his first wife, Helen, had a son and a daughter. While living in Bristol he began travelling around schools in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Farish
Helen Farish (born 1962 Cumbria) is a British poet. Life She received her B.A. from University of Durham, M.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University. She lectured in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-5). She has also been a visiting lecturer at Sewanee University, and a visiting scholar at the University of New Hampshire. Beginning 2007, she lectures full-time at Lancaster University, in the department of English and Creative Writing. She now lives in Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. .... Awards * ''Intimates'' 2005 Forward best first collection, shortlist for the 2005 TS Eliot prize. Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Copus
Julia Copus FRSL (born 1969) is a British poet, biographer and children's writer. Biography Copus was born in London and grew up with three brothers, two of whom went on to become musicians. She attended The Mountbatten School, a comprehensive in Romsey, and Peter Symonds Sixth Form College. She went on to study Latin at St Mary's College, Durham. Copus' books of poetry include ''The Shuttered Eye'' (Bloodaxe, 1995), which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the pamphlet ''Walking in the Shadows'' (1994), which won the Poetry Business competition, ''In Defence of Adultery'' (Bloodaxe, 2003), ''The World's Two Smallest Humans'' (Faber, 2012), shortlisted for both the Costa Book Awards (poetry category) and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and ''Girlhood'' (Faber 2019), winner of the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. She is known for establishing a new form in English poetry, which she has called the ''specular form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |